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Meaning and Importance of Tourism and Hospitality
Meaning and Importance of Tourism and Hospitality
IMPORTANCE
OF
TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY
Presented by:
Abadiano, Mary Grace
Altez, Gemnuel
Aquino, Marlon Edric
THE RELATIONSHIP OF TOURISM AND
HOSPITALITY
Several associations and industry leaders
consider the combined industries of tourism and
hospitality as one large industry – the tourism
and hospitality industry.
Components:
Food and beverages services
Lodging services
Recreation services
Travelrelated (tourism) services
THE RELATIONSHIP OF TOURISM AND
HOSPITALITY
Food and Beverages
Public looks for food and beverage service
everywhere – in hotels, motels, airlines, airports,
cruise ships, trains, and shopping malls.
Lodging Component
Provides overnight or even longterm services to
guests
A place to sleep such as inns, motor hotels, lodges,
or motor inns.
Recreation and Entertainment Component
Entertainment originated from the traditional
duties of a host to entertain his or her guests,
whether they are neighbour or traveler from other
places.
THE RELATIONSHIP OF TOURISM AND
HOSPITALITY
Travel and Tourism Component
Ambrella term to refer to those business that
provide primary services to traveler
Transportation
To make it possible for people to go from one place to
another.
Travel Agencies and Tour Operators
Modern additions to travel and tourism world.
DEFINITION OF TOURISM
Burkart and Medik (1997) five main characteristics of
tourism:
Complexity
Dynamic and Static Element
Journey and stay are toandfro destinations
Movement to destination is temporary and short
term
Destinations are visited for purposes.
DEFINITION OF TOURISM
Multidimensional phenomenon
Sum of phenomena and relationships and
relationships arising from the travel and stay of non
residents, insofar as they do not lead to permanent
residence and are not connected to any earning
activity. (Prof. Hunziker and Krapf of Berne
University)
Tourism is the temporary shortterm movement to
people to destinations outside the places where they
normally live and work and their activities during
stay at these destinations.(Tourism Society in Britain
May be defined in terms of particular activities
selected by choice and undertaken outside the home
environment. (Tourism Society in Cardiff)
DEFINITION OF HOSPITALITY
Latin word hospitare, means “to receive a s a guest”.
Words come from the same Latin root: hospital,
hospice, and hostel, which means a host who receives,
welcomes, and caters to the needs of the people who
are temporarily away from their home
MEANING OF TOURIST
A person who visits a country other than that in
which he or she usually resides for a period of at
least 24 hours.
Visitor means any person visiting a country other
than that of earning money.
Tourist
Excursionist
ELEMENTS OF TRAVEL
Distance – difference between local travel or
traveling within a person’s home community and
nonlocal travel or traveling away from home.
Length of Stay at the Destination criteria for
defining travelers is the length of stay at a
destination.
Residence of the Travel – where people live.
Purpose of Travel :
Visiting friends and relatives
Conventions, Seminars, and Meetings
Business
Outdoor recreation
Personal
Others.
THE NATURE OF A TOUR
Domestic tourism
International tourism
Inclusive tour
Independent tour
Independent Inclusive Tour (IIT)
Group Inclusive Tour (GIT)
THE TOURIST PRODUCT
Consists of what the tourist buys.
Characteristics:
Service
Largely psychological in its attraction
Tends to a vary in standard and quality over time
Fixed
THE TOURIST DESTINATION
Where the tourist visits and stays.
Three (3) basic factors:
Attraction
Amenities or facilities
Accessibility
TOURIST SERVICES
Passenger transport provides the means to
reach the destination.
Accommodation, food beverages, and
entertainment
Travel agent / distributor of product & Tour
Operator / manufacturer of product
CHARACTERISTIC OF TOURISM AND
HOSPITALITY
Product is not brought to the consumer; rather,
the consumer has to travel and go to product to
purchase it.
Products of tourism and hospitality are not used
up.
Laborintensive industry
Peopleoriented
Multidimensional phenomenon
IMPORTANCE OF TOURISM AND
HOSPITALITY
Contribution to the balance of payments
Dispersion of development
Effect on general economic development
Employment opportunities
Social benefits
Cultural enrichment
Educational significance
Vital force for peace